Summary
 This 4-day course is a mix of in-depth instructor led training and hands-on labs that focuses on the core features and tasks in System Center Essentials 2007 to provide the Essentials 2007 administrator and consultant the information they require to successfully install, configure and manage Essentials 2007. Included throughout are tips, tricks and best practices based on the extensive field experience of the course authors and instructors.
Prerequisites:
Before attending this course, students should have:
- Experience with Windows 2003 Server administration
- MCSA certification, or equivalent knowledge
The course materials, lectures, and lab exercises are written in US English. To benefit fully from the course requires an understanding of both verbal and written English language and completion of the prerequisites are recommended.
Course Materials and Software:
The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook and with detailed hands-on labs for the course. No software is provided in the student kit but a 120-day evaluation of System Center Essentials 2007 is available on the Microsoft web site.
Course Outline:
The lessons included in this course are:
Session 1: Overview of Essentials 2007
Session 2: Installing Essentials
Session 3: Configuring Essentials
Session 4: Working in the Computer Space
Session 5: Update Management
Session 6: Software Distribution
Session 7: Monitoring Concepts
Session 8: Advanced Monitoring Concepts
Session 9: Reporting in Essentials
Session 10: Management Pack configuration
Description
Installing and Configuring Essentials
- Planning and Prerequisites
- Installing and Essentials 2007
- Managing workgroup computers
Update Management
- Configuring update approval policies
- Importing a 3rd party update catalog
- Configuring 3rd party updates
- Monitoring and troubleshooting update deployment success
Software Deployment
- Creating and customizing software packages
- Upgrading and Removing Applications
- Monitoring and troubleshooting software deployment success
Client Monitoring and Management
- Hardware and Software Inventory Reporting
- Client Health Monitoring
- Troubleshooting client issues
Management Pack Configuration
- Windows Operating system
- Active Directory
- SQL 2000 / 2005
Creating Custom Management Packs
- How to create rules and monitors
- How to create synthetic transaction monitors
- Monitoring distributed applications
- Self tuning thresholds
Network and Non-Windows Monitoring
- Configuring Network Device Monitoring
- Configuring Monitoring for non-Windows Servers
Alert tuning - Identifying most common alert sources Customizing monitoring through overrides
- Alert escalation
Common administrative tasks
- Troubleshooting agent communication
- Agent deployment
- Agent proxy
- Configuring Alert Notifications
Instructor & Author Bios:
Our Instructors The consultants who deliver the course are accomplished consultants, experienced instructors and Essentials 2007 experts with excellent presentation skills and deep product knowledge. The class is configured with a dedicated lab environment for each student to support lab more than 30 hands-on lab exercises during the 4 day course Course Authors:
Pete Zerger is a consulting partner with AKOS Technology Services (http://www.akosts.com), where he focuses on design and deployment of enterprise operations and systems management, directory services, and messaging solutions. Pete holds an MCSE for Messaging, and an MCTS for SQL Server 2005.
He is a Microsoft MVP for Operations Manager and Essentials 2007 and has been working with Essentials since early beta. He is founder of systemcenterforum.org, a popular community site covering focusing on Operations Manager 2007, Essentials 2007 and the Microsoft System Center Suite.
Björn Axéll is a senior consultant at Advisec AB, an infrastructure solutions provider based in Sweden that specializes in Microsoft infrastructure solutions, including System Center Essentials. He has been working with System Center Essentials since early beta and in product focus groups since before the first beta release. Björn is a Microsoft MVP for Operations Manager and Essentials 2007.
System Center Essentials 2007
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